Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.